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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Happy Healthy New Year with Bob's Red Mill & California Olive Ranch

The Virtual Potluck group is teaming up with Bob's Red Mill (BRM) and California Olive Ranch (COR) during the month of January to demonstrate how easy it is to incorporate olive oil and whole grains into your meals making every course a healthier one.

Both BRM & COR seem to be great companies passionate about their products and where they originate from. You can read more about them here and here.

Our first challenge is to create an appetizer featuring BRM Hard White Whole Wheat Flour and COR Arbequina extra virgin olive oil. I love bruschetta type appetizers....fresh grilled bread topped with varying flavors...you can't go wrong. So I adapted my standard bread recipe to incorporate the BRM Whole Wheat Flour and came up with a delicious tasting "good for me" bread. I topped it with pesto that I made using the fresh fruity flavored Arbequina oil, some oven roasted tomatoes and fresh Buffalo mozzarella. The result was amazing.

Want to win the grain and oil of the week? Visit COR on Facebook and retrieve this week's Virtual Potluck code word. Then come back here or to any of the other VP pages and leave a comment using that word. Contest ends midnight EST on 1/8/2012

For an extra entry you can follow VP on twitter and tweet about this contest using the #virtualpotluck hashtag and leave a comment here letting me know.

You can get additional entries by visiting our host blog for this event and look for the list of participating bloggers; leaving comments on their pages will get you an entry.

In a large bowl, toss the tomatoes with 1/2 cup of COR and salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle with sugar. Place cut side down on a small baking sheet and bake for about 2 hours, or until the tomatoes are softened.

Putting it all together:

Grill slices of bread drizzle with some COR oil. Top with oven roasted tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella and drizzle with pesto.

I would love to try some arebequina olive oil! Thank you for sharing yet another delectable post. I'm exhausted after my first day back from vacation, but happy to be reading your words and seeing your eats! I hope you are doing well, my friend.

Thank you for the superdelicious recipes! For dessert I'd very much like to try California Olive Ranch's recipe for Arbequina Chocolate Brownies using Bob's Red Mill Flour:http://www.californiaoliveranch.com/recipes/desserts/arbequina-chocolate-brownies...yumyumyum!